You are creating a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster with a cluster autoscaler feature enabled. You need to make sure that each node of the cluster will run a monitoring pod that sends…

The correct answer is B. Deploy the monitoring pod in a DaemonSet object. Some typical uses of a DaemonSet are: - running a cluster storage daemon on every node - running a logs collection daemon on every node - running a node monitoring daemon on every node https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/daemonset/

Submitted by anna_se· Mar 30, 2026Deploying and implementing a cloud solution

Question

You are creating a Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) cluster with a cluster autoscaler feature enabled. You need to make sure that each node of the cluster will run a monitoring pod that sends container metrics to a third-party monitoring solution. What should you do?

Options

ADeploy the monitoring pod in a StatefulSet object.
BDeploy the monitoring pod in a DaemonSet object.
CReference the monitoring pod in a Deployment object.
DReference the monitoring pod in a cluster initializer at the GKE cluster creation time.

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Explanation

Some typical uses of a DaemonSet are: - running a cluster storage daemon on every node - running a logs collection daemon on every node - running a node monitoring daemon on every node https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/workloads/controllers/daemonset/

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#GKE#DaemonSet#Kubernetes workloads#monitoring

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